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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICE.

FREDERICK .I. LUTZ, OF BROOKLYN, NE YORK.-

FLYING TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,435, dated February5, 1889.

Application filed May 15, 1888. Serial No. 273,940. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J. LUlZ, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have in vented certain new and usefulImprovements in Flying Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved llyin toy of that class in whichthe toy is propelled by means of propeller-blades, to which motion isimparted by a string wound around the spindle of the propeller.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved flying toy, shown as flying in the air; and Fig. 2 is a sideelevation, partly in vertical central section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

My flying toy consists of two detachable parts-a tubular handle, A, thatis closed at the lower end, and the toy proper, which consists ofpropellel blades B B, that are secured by a hub, l), to the upper end ofa spindle, C. On the spindle O are arranged two fixed collars, (Z (Z,below the fan-blades, between which collars is arranged a loosely-turning figure, D, representing a butterfly, bird, or other su itable figure,the wings of which are made of tin, pasteboard, or other rigid materialwith a slight upward inclination, as shown in Fig. 2. The figure Dserves for steadying the motion of the toy, which would otherwise gyrateirregularly through the air, but by the action of the steadying orsteering figure D rises in a straight vertical or inclined line into theair, according to the position of inclination of the handle when thesame is sent off from the same into the air.

Motion is imparted to the flying toy by means of a string, M, that iswound around the spindle and passed through an aperture or guideeye, 6,near the upper end of the handle, the lower end of the spindle beingpreferably rounded off, so as to decrease the friction with the lowerend of the socket of the handle as much as possible.

For using my toy, the string M is passed through the guide-eye c andwound around the lower end of the spindle below the steadying-figure I),and the spindle is then inserted with the wound-up string into thesocket of the handle. In this condition the handle held with one handand the string is pulled with the other hand, whereby the toy ispropelled into the air by means of the propellerblades, but steadied bythe steadying-figure below the blades.

I am aware that flying toys have been used heretofore in whichpropeller-blades at the end of the spindle are used, said blades beingsent in the air by a suitable rotating device, and I do not claim thisfeature, broadly, as my invention depends on the arrangement of thesteadying device below ihe blades, as thereby the straight regularmotion of thetoy is secured.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desn e to secureby Letters Patent- 1. In a flying toy, the combination of a socketslmpedhandle having a guide-eye at its upper end, a spindleloosely inserted insaid handle, propeller-blades fixed to the upper end of said spindle,two collars on the spindle, and a steadying-body on the spindle betweenthe collars and adapted to turn loosely in a plane at right angles tothe spindle.

In a flying toy, the combination of a socket-shaped handle having aguide-eye at its upper end, a spindle loosely inserted in said handle,propeller-blades fixed to the upper end of said spindle, two collars onthe spindle, and a steadying-body on the spindle between the collars andadapted to turn loosely in a plane at right angles to the spindle, saidsteadyin g body having upwardly inclined wings.

.In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signedmy name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK J. LUTZ. Witnesses:

SIDNEY MANN, JOHN A. STRALEY.

